01What is stored on your Mac
- The app's settings, the place you chose, prayer times, your personal adhkar, adhan files you pick, and books you download.
- They are stored in the app's folder on your Mac only, and shared with the Prayer Reminder desktop widget on the same Mac.
- You can delete everything from Settings → Reset App, or by deleting the app.
02iCloud backup
- In the App Store version, a copy of your settings and personal adhkar is saved to your own iCloud account, so you can restore it on any Mac.
- It is stored in your iCloud by Apple, and we cannot access it.
- You can turn it off in Settings → iCloud Backup.
03Location
- The app asks for location permission only when you use a feature that needs it: prayer times for your location, the Qibla direction, and nearby mosques.
- Location is used on your Mac to calculate prayer times and the Qibla.
- The phone Qibla page (from the QR code) carries no data from the Mac: it asks for your phone's location inside the browser to work out the Qibla, the compass correction and the sun's direction, and never sends or stores it — except that choosing «Map» shows Apple Maps' picture of where you are.
- When you search for nearby mosques, the coordinates are sent to our server to find mosques around you, and are not stored.
- You can turn the permission off at any time in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services.
04Internet connections
The app connects to public services only to provide its features, without sending personal data about you:
- Your mosque's timetable, from the mosque timetable platform where the mosque publishes its times.
- Maps for the Qibla and mosques, and your area's name from its coordinates (Apple Maps).
- Official prayer timetables (the UAE's Awqaf), from our server, without sending anything about you.
- Recitations, radio and live streams, from their providers.
- Library books, from a public repository.
- Checking for a new version, through the App Store.
These services may log your Mac's IP address, as with any internet connection.
05Feedback and support
When you send feedback from inside the app, we receive:
- Your message and any images you attach.
- Diagnostic details that help us solve the problem: app and macOS versions, language, the city and coordinates set in the app (rounded to about one kilometre), the prayer-time source, network status and time zone.
They include no identifier of your Mac's hardware or of any account. To keep the conversation private, the app creates a random key on your Mac for your feedback: our server keeps only a fingerprint of it, so only your Mac can see your feedback's status and our replies, and the replies we write to you are stored encrypted so that only your Mac can open them. They reach us through our server and the messaging service we use to receive them, and are used only to answer you and fix problems. You can ask us to delete them at any time.
06Notifications
Prayer alerts are local notifications scheduled by the app on your Mac; they never pass through a server.
07Children
The app is suitable for everyone, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children.
08Security
Connections use encryption (HTTPS) wherever the provider supports it.
09Changes to this policy
We may update this policy; the date of the last update is shown at the top.
10Contact us
Through About → Send Feedback inside the app, or our website m3.ae.